Contain Quotes

A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality. — George Saunders

You ought to choose fewer words that contain S for the time being. You are spitting all over me. — Julie Anne Long

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more. — Roger Ebert

I am too small to contain what I feel. — Selena Kitt

Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay. — John Muir

Books contain a special magic. Letters and words - side by side - able to speak and sing to us.
This allows the reader to enter the story. — Jason Ellis

To understand techniques, you must learn that they contain a lot of condensed movement. — Bruce Lee

Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic

Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful. — Laozi

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible. — Paul Dickson

I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find — W.B.Yeats

Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well. — Alfred Hershey

How can a world full of evil, corrupt people also contain such beauty? — Madison Sevier

In a special sense ... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment. — Ken Wilber

There are . . . times when one must accept the aid of darkness in order to contain a greater darkness. — Brandon Sanderson

People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side! — Ken Hensley

I don't know what's in the box, but I love it. Unopened gifts contain hope. — Jarod Kintz

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe ... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind. — Charles Capps

The scriptures are one of our greatest treasures. They contain God's instructions to His people from the beginning of time. — L. Tom Perry

You can miss an experience by obsessing over how to contain it. — Gina Greenlee

Yours is a true heart, Vespertilio. Beware of it, for it is surely too large for thy chest to contain. — Robin Jarvis

I'm a big fan of pastries the size of a baby that contain enough calories for a year. That seems like an effective use of time. — Mike Birbiglia

You can't stop the White Mamba! You can only hope to contain him! — Stacey King

The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil. — R.C. Sproul

You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one. — Stewart Brand

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run. — David Harvey

Despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak. — Trinh T. Minh-ha

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones. — Emma Donoghue

Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company. — Michael Dirda

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. — Victor Hugo

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. — Ingmar Bergman

Everyone is a different book, with a different cover, different contain but the question is do you dare to open it? — Deyth Banger

The best lies contain within them nuggets of truth, enough to give a listener pause. — George R R Martin

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are. — Paul Auster

Travel is the physical move from point A to point B that could be very expensive and it could contain a questionable experience. — Boris Zubry

People will eat more salad if there's a chance the next bite will contain a toasted nut. — Jennifer Reese

Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know. — John Hodgman

Wrongly chosen, wrongly slain, A hero Valhalla cannot contain. Nine days hence the sun must go east, Ere Sword of Summer unbinds the beast. — Rick Riordan

Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia. — Robert R. Blake

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy. — Roger Ebert

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. — Plato

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe? — Leonardo Da Vinci

Forget Orson Welles, and heed Walt Whitman: "I am large, I contain multitudes."5 — Ed Yong

Living this way, in his own presence, time took on its most extreme dimensions, and each hour seemed to contain a world. — Albert Camus

This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say. — Joan Barfoot

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious. — Glenn Branca

The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II. — John Allen Paulos

I knew - perhaps I hoped - that no form could ever contain Lila, and that sooner or later she would break everything again. — Elena Ferrante

You can't stop me in bump. And you definitely can't stop me playing off. You just try to contain me and stop me from getting a lot of catches. — Randy Moss

All pleasures contain an element of sadness. — Jonathan Eybeschutz

Marriage vows contain the words "to have and to hold," not "to have and to scold. — Tracy Kunzler

All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict--how to contain it, or abolish it. — Ralph Miliband

If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can't be maintained forever. — George Soros

He was looking for a vehicle of purpose, for a vessel to contain his formless ambitions and abilities. — Robert Silverberg

Because my hair is colored, I always make sure to find shampoos and conditioners that don't contain sulfates. — Bethany Mota

Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer. — Thomas Campbell

That loving and being loved by Jesus matters more than all that the world can obtain or contain. — Beth Moore

I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners. — Robert Treat Paine

Your failures contain key to your success and your destination — Sunday Adelaja

Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine. — Yoshida Kenko

I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything. — Norman Grubb

We can contain such secret misery, perversion. — Ben Marcus

The purpose of language is to facilitate expression and communication, not to altogether define or contain them. — Jennifer Hamady

Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain. — Ellen Bass

The human psyche was much more flexible than I'd imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities. — Ransom Riggs

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. — Margaret Fuller

But you don't know the depravity of my mind. You don't know the thoughts I struggle with, what I fight to contain. — Alessandra Torre

Freedom within is embodied in things as well as people. Like coins tossed into a wishing well, they contain our hopes and dreams. — Fennel Hudson

To effectively contain a civilization's development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science. — Liu Cixin

felt my heart might just burst. Bursting is different than breaking. Like there is no way to contain how beautiful. Not — Peter Heller

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. — Michelangelo

A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath. — Terry Pratchett

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition. — Theodore Dalrymple

Most field trips contain sinister plots. — Lemony Snicket

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ooks look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. — Julian Barnes

The truth finds its way into the light, no matter what you've done to contain it. — Wendy Webb

The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. — Aristotle.

Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, they contain pure truths, before we cluttered our languages with so many useless words. — Cassandra Clare

His inner furnace burns stronger than most. Sometimes it flares up and he can't contain his anger. It's why we call him Ireheart. — Markus Heitz

A story is like a machine with numerous gears: it should contain no gear that doesn't turn something — John Gardner

Who has more pockets than a magician?
A boy.
Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians?
A boy's. — Ray Bradbury

I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a tea cup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God. — Brennan Manning

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth. — Pat Buckley

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping,
For only the hand of God can contain your hearts. — Khalil Gibran

Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT. — Dave Barry

Before you dismiss any gift as worthless, look again because it may just contain hidden treasure. — Rejoice Denhere

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity? — Marcus Aurelius

Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted. — Gregory Of Nazianzus

Mind games contain only inner demons. — Fennel Hudson

The books I like...contain things to ponder, ignore, memorize, and laugh and wonder at. — Seymour Chwast

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. — Bertrand Russell

Good business should contain something for both parties. — John Harvey-Jones

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. — Anatole France

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture. — James Patterson

The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality. — Mahavatar Babaji

Why do [TEMPLES] beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you. — Neill F. Marriott

I mean it felt my heart might just burst. Bursting is different than breaking. Like there is no way to contain how beautiful. — Peter Heller

There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson. — Victor Hugo

Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data. — Dennis Ritchie